{"id":47390,"date":"2025-04-11T15:59:17","date_gmt":"2025-04-11T19:59:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=47390"},"modified":"2025-04-11T15:59:17","modified_gmt":"2025-04-11T19:59:17","slug":"appexindexer-1-0","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/11\/appexindexer-1-0\/","title":{"rendered":"AppexIndexer 1.0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/eclecticlight.co\/2025\/04\/10\/discover-appexes-with-appexindexer\/\">Howard Oakley<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/eclecticlight.co\/2025\/04\/10\/discover-appexes-with-appexindexer\/\">\n<p>App extensions, appexes, have become plentiful and widely used by macOS and third-party software, yet discovering and controlling them is patchy and limited. The most coherent access is in <strong>System Settings<\/strong> &gt; <strong>General<\/strong> &gt; <strong>Login Items &amp; Extensions<\/strong>, where some are gathered in the list of <strong>Extensions<\/strong> at the end. Others like Safari extensions are controlled in app settings, while most remain hidden out of sight.<\/p>\n<p>To take stock of all these appexes, I turned to the <code>pluginkit<\/code> command tool, but the lists it generates are seemingly ordered at random, and so extensive that it would require some serious scripting to make any sense. Instead, it&rsquo;s easier and more effective to put together a little app to do that. So I present you with AppexIndexer, an exploratory utility that displays key information about all appexes recognised by macOS.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p>Previously:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2024\/11\/05\/sequoia-no-longer-supports-quicklook-generator-plug-ins\/\">Sequoia No Longer Supports QuickLook Generator Plug-ins<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2024\/10\/03\/finder-sync-extensions-removed-from-system-settings-in-sequoia\/\">Finder Sync Extensions Removed From System Settings in Sequoia<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Howard Oakley: App extensions, appexes, have become plentiful and widely used by macOS and third-party software, yet discovering and controlling them is patchy and limited. The most coherent access is in System Settings &gt; General &gt; Login Items &amp; Extensions, where some are gathered in the list of Extensions at the end. Others like Safari [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2025-04-11T19:59:20Z","apple_news_api_id":"4ea27d69-dfd8-4aa3-81db-42ae3fe9c96c","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2025-04-11T19:59:20Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/ATqJ9ad_YSqOB20KuP-nJbA","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2751,905,30,32,2598],"class_list":["post-47390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-appexindexer","tag-extensions","tag-mac","tag-macapp","tag-macos-15-sequoia"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47390","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47390"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47390\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47391,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47390\/revisions\/47391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}